Barbara Wasner

Barbara Wasner serves as a Privatdozentin (Associate Professor) at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd within the Department of Sociology, Interculturality and Integration.

Her research focuses on:

• Elite Sociology: examining power structures, lobbying networks, and media influence in elite formation
• Social Security Systems: analyzing pension reforms and institutional evolution through Europeanization
• Political Sociology: investigating political rituals like Ash Wednesday events and Bavarian parliamentary systems
• Sociology of Leisure: exploring cultural dimensions of free time and social inequality

Her publication record (2004-2016) demonstrates sustained engagement with European elite dynamics and welfare state transformations. Key contributions include theoretical developments in elitology, comparative analyses of social security systems, and empirical studies of political discourse patterns, reflecting both macro-institutional and micro-social perspectives.

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